SOLVED Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?

[jdaviescoates]

@girish at first I couldn't do that because I had mounted the Volume as Read only.

Even after changing that and then doing chmod 777 Music/ (from within the /media/ folder) it doesn't seem to have made any difference. I still get the exact same:

The folder couldn't be read. Does it exist? /media/Music

[girish]

@jdaviescoates did you try the chmod on the host? (and not inside container)

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

@jdaviescoates did you try the chmod on the host? (and not inside container)

Ah, no, I did it within the Web Terminal of the App itself.

I think if I need to actually SSH into my server in order to actually get Volumes to work with Ampache then perhaps I'll just not use Ampache at all!

I'm also wondering what the security implications of making it 777 are and if that could potentially mean other people could delete files from there without me wanting them to?

[girish]

@jdaviescoates said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

I'm also wondering what the security implications of making it 777 are and if that could potentially mean other people could delete files from there without me wanting them to?

Do other people have access to the server? (i.e can they ssh in?). Do you also require that Cloudron admins should not be able to delete files from the say the Volume -> file manager ?

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

Do other people have access to the server? (i.e can they ssh in?).

No.

@girish said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

Do you also require that Cloudron admins should not be able to delete files from the say the Volume -> file manager ?

At present there are no other admins. But if there were, I'd trust them to not do that.

[girish]

@jdaviescoates Ah ok, if there are no admins, there is no danger of chmod 777 and other people being able to delete things.

A more "unixy" way is to create a group. Cloudron already creates a group called media. Then, add the www-data (that ampache uses) to that group on the host. Then change ownership of the directory to be media group and have rwx permissions. That should work too.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish this just doesn't feel like the Cloudron "it just works" way

[girish]

@jdaviescoates yeah, it's a bit rough.. AFAIK, fixing permissions cannot be done for ext4 mounts without a chmod and I don't know if it's a good idea to do this automagically since it changes the metadata on the external disk. Maybe someone else can chime in.

Is yours a ext4 volume or something else? Because others like CIFS support umask flag when mounting. Maybe that's an option too.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

CIFS support umask flag when mounting

Yeah it's CIFS

[girish]

@jdaviescoates Maybe you can try file_mode and dir_mode flag in the /etc/fstab. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/313093/how-do-i-mount-a-cifs-share-via-fstab-and-give-full-rw-to-guest .

I guess this is part of the complexity in implementing this Worth automating!